Clinton: That Jeep ad really hurt Obama’s feelings, you know

posted at 7:21 pm on October 29, 2012 by Erika Johnsen

And so the Jeep/China/offshoring drama continues. Team Obama was up in arms over the weekend because, they claimed, a new Mitt Romney ad perpetuates a false attack by pointing out that erstwhile-bailout-recipient Chrysler is considering building new Jeep production facilities in China. The only thing is, while Romney did misspeak while on the stump last week about Chrysler’s production plans, everything in Romney’s ad is completely true and mainly serves to point out that Obama gave taxpayer money to a company that offshores, even though we know how much President Obama just detests offshoring in practice and in principle, don’t you know.

So, Team Obama’s response? Fight facts with more fire!

Yes, because doubling down on your false “let them eat cake” narrative on Romney’s proposed version of the auto bailouts isn’t misleading at all.

But wait, there’s more! At a campaign rally on Obama’s behalf today, President Clinton went into full-on shameless demagogue mode, h/t the Weekly Standard:

I saw the reports of Governor Romney’s latest ad saying that the president had allowed Jeep to move to China. And so, this morning, before he left Florida and went back to Washington, he said, ‘You know, of all the things Governor Romney has said that probably hurts my feelings the most.’ He said, ‘You know, I never had any money when I was a kid, and the first new car I ever owned I was 30 years old it was a Jeep. I would never move Jeep to China.’

Well, far be it from Mitt Romney to argue with any of the president’s lingering Jeep-sentimentality by pointing out his intellectual inconsistencies on offshoring — how very gauche of him.

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Give me a break. Wonder how Mitt felt when they accused him of causing a woman’s death. We don’t know, because none of his surrogates were going around whining about how much it hurt his feelings. If anyone knows that politics ain’t beanbag, it’s the Chicago crew…spare me the faux indignation.

Well, sorry pal, but that deal you made resulted in Fiat having…..wait for it…MAJORITY interest in Chrysler, so guess what genius, if they want to move the whole Jeep line to China, they pretty much can do it, thanks to you Mighty ‘O’!

“The final step in the integration process will be to increase Fiat’s ownership of Chrysler from 58 percent to 100 percent. That will require either a public stock offering to cash out the remaining stake held by the United Automobile Workers’ health care trust, or a direct purchase of the trust’s stake by Fiat.

“We need to find a way to bring these two businesses together completely,” he said.

“Once Fiat takes full ownership, Mr. Marchionne will be faced with the delicate decision of whether to locate its corporate headquarters in Italy, the United States or possibly a neutral location”

Yep! The More a Lib screams like a stuck pig, the closer you hit to home! Obviously the accusations are dead on target, as the history of Lib Indignation shows. Lie about a Lib and you may or may not get a reaction. Tell the truth about a Lib and they want your entire family tortured and Murdered! You would think they would stop giving away such an important tell and you would think that the Republican eSTABlishment would stop running like frightened little girls every time they hit their mark!
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‘You know, of all the things Governor Romney has said that probably hurts my feelings the most.’ He said, ‘You know, I never had any money when I was a kid, and the first new car I ever owned I was 30 years old it was a Jeep. I would never move Jeep to China.

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I would have thought that was a decision that Chrysler makes not you- you rat-eared bastard. And who the hell thinks that your first new car was a Jeep? That’s a car for Americans not sorta Indonesian/sorta Kenyan/sorta Hawaiian coke-snorting lawyers.

Last Jeep I bought was a boxed Army surplus one in 1968. It was a 1944 still in the grease Willis. The next one I buy will be when Barry cuts me a check for $9 gazillion billion to pay for the warranty.

Argh…Sorry if I am sounding depressed but ….The early vote margin of 26% Obama is down right depressing.

Varchild on October 29, 2012 at 7:40 PM

You are basing your depression on highly inflated numbers. According to most polls, 30-33% of Ohioans have said that they have either already voted in person or returned absentee ballots. That is simply untrue. Per the Secretary of State’s office, only 17.4% registered voters have already voted or returned absentee ballots. If 30% of voters had already voted/returned absentee ballots, the number would be 2.31 million.

In 2008, 29.7% Ohioans voted early or returned absentee ballots.

Furthermore, the votes have not been counted nor have the absentee ballots been opened. NO VOTES WILL BE COUNTED UNTIL ELECTION DAY.

I’m afraid that many people are telling pollsters that they’ve already voted to get them off of the phone.

Okay, would you move Jeep to, say, Kenya or Indonesia or, what the hell, Iran, you’re newest fave America-hating country? Or, why not Russia, when you get that post-election flexibility that you promised ol’ Vlad?

That a president would talk about where he would or would not move a private business enterprise is chilling, at the least.

The only thing is, while Romney did misspeak while on the stump last week about Chrysler’s production plans,

Hey Erika, it was a bald-faced, straight-up lie!

And the Obama campaign is ripping Mitt a new one!

Calling out an unprincipled liar like Mitt Romney is the best response.

chumpThreads on October 29, 2012 at 7:44 PM

Haha. China, Italy, potatoe, potato…what’s the difference, tool :) they are owned by the silliest car company in tne world, Fiat, this in itself is sad…nobody in their right mind would buy a car that has anything to do with Fiat :)…. worst car company in Europe, and probably in the world..and of course they will move some of the Jeep production to Italy soon…to make the Jeep’s humiliation (and implicitly obysmal’s bailout effort) complete…

SALES: Fiat sales are down 20 percent in the first nine months of the year, to 1 million vehicles from 1.37 million a year earlier. In September alone, they dropped 25.7 percent. That’s in a European auto market that dropped 7 percent in the first three quarters of the year, according to ACEA, the European automakers association.

Not only was Chrysler stolen from investors illegally – its the only brand on the + side of FIAT’s vast losing company.

Good to see we are keeping Italian workers afloat, through domestic American sales. They don’t break down Fiat’s American sales, because they are J-Lo crap.

I saw the reports of Governor Romney’s latest ad saying that the president had allowed Jeep to move to China. And so, this morning, before he left Florida and went back to Washington, he said, ‘You know, of all the things Governor Romney has said that probably hurts my feelings the most.’ He said, ‘You know, I never had any money when I was a kid, and the first new car I ever owned I was 30 years old it was a Jeep. I would never move Jeep to China.’

Jeep is owned by Chrysler, which is now owned by Fiat, who purchased Chrysler at a fire-sale price that caused U.S. taxpayers to have to take a big loss on the sale. (Barry’s a super-smart Harvard grad who has zero business experience and who can’t do math beyond the 7th-grade level).

Fiat can move those Jeep manufacturing jobs anywhere it wants to. It has talked about moving them to China, and more recently, to its home base of Italy. But whatever decision Fiat’s management makes about Jeep, it won’t be up to Barry — no matter what kind of car he owned when he was younger.

Obama never had any money as a kid? How the hell did he go to two Ivy League Universities with no student loans to pay back?

Daemonocracy on October 29, 2012 at 8:04 PM

He did, apparently have some student loans; they were paid back when he and Michelle cashed in big; he from money earned working for/with Annenburg foundation (headed by Bill Ayers father, among others,) and she with the big-money hospital job arranging the dumping of indigents.